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Compare And Contrast The Crime Control And The Due Process Model

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Criminal Justice

The criminal justice system is made up of two approaches that divides the system into opposing sides. The Crime Control Model and the Due Process Model are two completely different criminal justice administrations that work in separate ways to make up this entire system. This model is a very conservative way of thinking compared to the Due Process Model which was a very liberal way of thinking.

With each system, comes down to how each system works separately and how they have to work together. The Crime Control Model is a more conservative approach to criminal justice, its main concern is efficiency. This model wants to bring judicial cases to a close in the quickest way possible. This presumption is based upon that if the authorities took the time to arrest the convict, than that person should be guilty. However, with America's oldest traditional principle …show more content…

Unlike the previous model, this is more liberal. The process is based upon the whole thinking of that factual guilt has to match up with evidence before one can be proven guilty. This gives the victim of guilt a full opportunity to be discredited with the charges against them and be proven innocent. In chapter one, page 15 it sates that "it is better to let a guilty person go free than it is to wrongly convict and punish an innocent person." This runs along with America's oldest and most traditional thought in the criminal justice system that one is innocent until proven guilty. However, this is the thought of that everyone is presumed innocent. It is in belief that the authorities sometimes arrest the wrong person, which can happen but is also rare; thus protecting the innocent is just as important as it is to convict the guilty. For one to be proven guilty, factual guilt is not enough, the evidence has to be based upon reliable sources and information, but has to all add up genuinely proving

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